On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: >> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. >> Giving Debian a whirl now. >> > [cut] >> >> yum update > > This becomes "apt-get update" in debian.
No. It's not. This is an endless source of confusion for folks coming over from RHEL land. "apt-get update" just resyncs your local repository information, it attempts to install nothing. The equivalent apt command is "apt-get upgrade". The equivalent yum command to "apt-get update" is "yum clean metadata; yum list", to update the available package list. >> or: >> >> yum install package_name > > apt-get install package_name > >> >> To find a package I also frequently do something like this: >> >> yum list available |grep abr_package_name > > This is either "apt-cache search abr_package_name" to look for > prospective packages or "dpkg -l abr_package_name" to show the state of > packages on your system. No. It's not. Please do not confuse newbies. 'dpkg -l' merely shows installed packages, 'yum list' shows installed and *available* packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt to list all the available packages for a system, rather than directly parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available, but this is not it. Your other notes are helpful, but please try not to confuse a nice new person with mismatched comparisons of existing commands that *don't* have the same features between operating systems. I just went through this with a recent switch from RHEL based systems to Debian, so it's very fresh in my mind. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktikbr5yurdgqpc1qpsj1pip90w9...@mail.gmail.com
